Ksenia Karelina: Ballerina facing up to 15 years in Russian jail for donating £40 to Ukraine charity A US-Russian woman who admitted giving around £40 to a charity supporting Ukraine could be jailed for up to 15 years, if prosecutors in Russia have their ...
Anna Alexandrovna Plisetskaya (Russian: АннаАлександровнаПлисецкая, born August 18, 1971) is a Russian ballerina, actress and producer. Birthplace: Russia, Moscow Anna Politkovskaya Dec. at 48 (1958-2006) Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (Russian: А́ннаСт...
Natalia Romanovna Makarova (Russian: Ната́лияРома́новнаМака́рова, born 21 November 1940) is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that "her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy...
I first began traveling to Russia more than 24 years ago, and in 2010 I publishedTravels in Siberia, a book about trips I’d made to that far-flung region. With the fall of the Soviet Union, areas previously closed to travelers had opened up. During the 1990s and after, the pace of ...
the mansion of ballerinaMathilde Kschessinska(currently, the Museum of Political History), where Lenin read out his so-called April Theses (“The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution”) after returning from exile in Switzerland; the Peter and Paul Fortress, which housed many politi...